Weird Wi-Fi places

Weird Wi-Fi places

Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times

By Mark Milian, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Some places are practically obligated to offer wireless Internet. It's commonplace to walk into a coffee shop, library, hotel lobby, college campus, train station or airport and find people plugging away on their laptops. And by next summer Delta Air Lines, the nation's third-largest carrier, will begin offering Wi-Fi on 330 planes. But the following L.A. Web "hotspots" might leave you scratching your head.

By Mark Milian, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Some places are practically obligated to offer wireless Internet. It's commonplace to walk into a coffee shop, library, hotel lobby, college campus, train station or airport and find people plugging away on their laptops. And by next summer Delta Air Lines, the nation's third-largest carrier, will begin offering Wi-Fi on 330 planes. But the following L.A. Web "hotspots" might leave you scratching your head. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

By Mark Milian, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Some places are practically obligated to offer wireless Internet. It's commonplace to walk into a coffee shop, library, hotel lobby, college campus, train station or airport and find people plugging away on their laptops. And by next summer Delta Air Lines, the nation's third-largest carrier, will begin offering Wi-Fi on 330 planes. But the following L.A. Web "hotspots" might leave you scratching your head.